Covenant News

Jan 2009

Dueman and Tannya joined in Holy matrimony in a glorious wedding ceremony. Covenantians had a wonderful time…but the caterers didn’t.

Badminton has become the flavor of the season … Sam being the man to beat…..Robin and Alex being the challengers…Robin again takes the cake for being the ‘best (un)dressed player’…..Newton is easily the most improved player…Murali and Josh keep ‘saying’ that they are a good doubles team…and the ‘forgettable’ moments were the ‘Ardy Bernardus Wiranata’ like spectacular shots which Praweesh…… missed!!!!!!!!!
 

2008 Highlights

Bangalore Office Opening: Covenant expanded its boundaries in Feb 2008 by inaugurating its Bangalore branch.


5th anniversary Celebration: Covenant crossed the milestone of five successful years of operation in May 2008. To mark the event, we had a videoconference linking everyone at Covenant from offices all over the country. It was a wonderful get-together! Robin and Johnson created t-shirts for the occasion – a smart design with the Covenant logo proudly emblazoned. Murali and the Administration team made sure everyone took home some delicious sweets.

Training Programs: In Oct Joshua Madan (Head Operations) was a faculty for a Traininng Program organized by the ERA. Joshua’s well-received lecture covered latest executive search techniques.
 

Sports

Cricket: Sports Secretary Robert was behind the 20-20 Cricket Match held between Hawks and Tigers at MCC. The Hawks won this closely fought match by 7 runs – Nixon’s 30 minute over was brilliant. Vijay from Engineering Practice was the Man of the Match.

In SEP two new teams “Lighting strikers” and “Thunder Storms” were formed and the match between the teams was a nail bitter – ‘Cool’ Srini doing a Miandad hitting the winning runs of the last ball of the match to win the match for the “Lighting strikers”

In Oct the match was won by “Thunder Storms” but it was a sad day for cricket with only “one team playing in the spirit of the game” .Joshua played a ‘Steve Waugh’ like inspired knock to give the “Thunder Storms” a deserving victory….this match is also remembered infamously because Praweesh did a ‘Mike Gatting’ and Dueman did a ‘John Mc Enroe’!!!! so it is only fair say as Shastri says ‘it is the game of cricket that lost that day’

In Nov Covenant selected its cricket team which went smoothly with only one issue of who’s name should be written on the team sheet first…with that sorted out, two matches were fixed (arranged) against two local teams with Covenant losing both the matches narrowly with a wide margin.

Carrom Tournament: Was conducted in the month of September .Venkat and Anish were the double winners beating Praweesh and Rajesh in the finals.Rajesh won the singles title beating Srini in the finals. This set the tone for the Late night Games (carrom): over the matches played it was found out that Murali and Venkat were the men to beat in singles. The doubles team of Murali and Joshua had won most matches…more to do with their gift of the gab…much to the chagrin of Newton and his teams .Nixon is one player to watch…. (not hear)…we warn you that you would be waiting till eternity till he completes a shot….and it is fair to say that the unforgettable moments were provided by the ‘Maria Irudayam’ like “spectacular” shots of Praweesh ……

Prayer and Worship Team: This team was formed under the leadership of Priyaraj,Sharon and Angelo

JCFC: This fellowship program was started in Sep 2008.The fellowship meets on every Saturday for a time of earnest learning of Life application lessons from the Bible.

Career Guidance and Leadership Programs :On Oct 3rd and 4th, Praweesh Kumar (Director) was invited to address a group of 60 youth from Marthoma youth fellowship for a 2-day program on career guidance and leadership.

Year-end - Business excellence awards &Christmas celebrations:
Covenant recognized its engines of success during the Christmas and The Year end Thanks Giving celeberations. We had the privilege of having Vasudevan (GM SBI),Alfred Devaprasad(CEO Alpha Group of Institutions) and Dr. J.V Peter (Dy.Superindent,CMC Vellore) as our Chief Guests.
 

The management is proud to announce the list of the deserving winners.

Weddings

2008 saw the glorious union of marital bliss and a lifetime of togetherness for the following couples Balu with Jemima, Vamsee with Gracia, Harika with Satish, and Promoth with Simi.

Joining Day –Anniversaries - 2008

Cheruba completed 5 years of stupendous service at Covenant.

Murali, Victor, Helan and Balu completed 4 years in Covenant.